Chapter 58 (II) Frightened Take-off
The soldier who led the way led the three to the smallest and most inconspicuous tent, and then saluted and left, and then the curtain door of the tent was opened, and Tian Longting showed his head and smiled at them, and then looked upward, as if he was worried that a plane would see him, and waved them in.
Gu Huaiyi led the way into the tent, and after entering, he saw that a deep pit had been dug in the tent, and various communication equipment were placed in the deep pit, it seemed that the tent was small, but the two ends of the pit were connected to underground fortifications, and there were passages to connect to other tents.
Tian Longting called the busy soldiers away, and then brought out drinks and wine to signal them to sit down, and said at the same time: "In extraordinary times, there is only this environment, I am worried that we will be eliminated by a fixed point, and now the general and we are on the assassination blacklist, we have learned from multiple channels that several Western countries are ready to kill us." โ
"Now that the situation is so tense, why are we targeting you?" Tang Shuxing looked at the dirty water with cigarette ash next to him and had the urge to drink it, and paradoxically, he was very sick to his stomach.
"Because some people think that Astaya's affairs have something to do with us." Lin Suotu came out of the connecting fortifications, covered in mud, and after greeting them, he said to Tian Longting, "That batch of cannons has been hidden, but they can be dragged out at any time." โ
Gu Huaiyi sat on the chair and asked, "Does it have anything to do with you?" โ
"Yes, let's plant it." Tian Longting poured himself a glass of spirits, "There are countless clues pointing out that we have maintained cooperation with Shaman Power for many years, but it is ridiculous that so many things have happened, and the US government has not come forward to investigate Shaman Power. โ
Tang Shuxing and Gu Huaiyi glanced at each other, knowing that this matter must be related to the American security adviser, this guy is the driving force behind the incident, but who is behind him? Who is the contact person between Sharman Power and Bafang and Shangdu? The relationship is too complicated.
"Where are you going this time?" Lin Suotu asked, leaning against the table.
"United States." Gu Huaiyi said, thought for a while, and added, "Philadelphia." In such a situation, it may be difficult to smuggle in, right? โ
Lin Suotu and Tian Longting looked at each other and smiled, Tian Longting said: "It's not difficult, you can take our previous freight route." It's relatively safe, and the trouble is with your sidearms. But you can still find a way, as for the route......"
Tian Longting pointed to a world map spread on the table, which marked various routes with red, blue, green and black lines, land, water, routes, etc., which looked like their drug smuggling routes for many years, and it was amazing to do so in such detail. It's no wonder that Zheng Guoyuan's drug empire can grow so strong.
"You first take our plane, fly direct to the island of New Guinea, and take a flight there to Hawaii, where your cold weapons will be consigned in New Guinea in the form of gifts. Someone will handle the relevant formalities for you there, so you don't have to worry about it. Tian Longting's hand moved on the map, "After you arrive at Hawaii Island, you will have to go around in a circle and take a plane to the Colรณn Islands in Ecuador." There's our base there, and then you'll have to head to Monterrey, Mexico, where the roast lamb is good, and you can try it when you have time. โ
Gu Huaiyi looked back at Lin Suotu and asked, "After entering Mexico, did you throw us to the drug dealers in Mexico?" โ
Lin Suotu glanced at Tian Longting and said, "That's something that can't be helped. It's not our territory, it's been a mess since the arrest of the King of Mexico, Gust, and although the war between drug dealers and drug dealers has stopped a lot, the danger behind the scenes has increased, and our cooperation with Gust has been interrupted, and we have to re-establish relations, and to enter the United States, the Mexican border is the best place, and you go from the south coast all the way to the east coast, and then into Philadelphia, where there is fast track. โ
"I'll go with you, and I'll be back after sending you off the Mexican border." Tian Longting looked at Gu Huaiyi and said, and immediately added, "Don't get me wrong, first, I volunteered, second, I have to sort out the relationship with Mexico, and third, this is also the general's order." โ
Tang Shuxing looked at Gu Huaiyi, Gu Huaiyi nodded: "Okay, I only have one condition, that is, we have the final say along the way, and you can't call the shots, unless there is an accident or a problem on the route." โ
"There's a young master, where is my turn to be in charge." Tian Longting smiled, compared to the first time they met, this guy seemed much more stable, maybe the situation was different.
"The plane was ready for a long time, although it was a little broken, but it was not a problem to fly to New Guinea." Tian Longting picked up the backpack he had prepared a long time ago, and then got into the fortifications, and the other three immediately followed, Ji Kefeng was expressionless all the time, and he didn't speak, following them like a ghost.
Leaning forward along the fortifications, after advancing a hundred meters, he got out of a tent, left the canyon from the other end, and came to the top of a slightly open, but uneven hill, Tian Longting took out the walkie-talkie and called, more than 30 lightly armed soldiers came out from around, five of them went into the jungle, and the rest immediately moved the tanks and tree stumps deliberately placed around the open field to the edge of the jungle on both sides.
"This is the runway?" Tang Shuxing looked at the other end of the so-called runway, the other end was nothing, empty, it looked like a cliff, and the whole distance was only six or seven hundred meters at best.
"Hmm." Tian Longting didn't say much, just commanded with a walkie-talkie, and then two off-road vehicles drove out of the jungle on the left, each off-road vehicle was also dragging a steel cable, and the back of the steel cable seemed to be connected to the plane, and then a small plane with branches and leaves everywhere was dragged out, and the wings on both sides of the plane also had propellers, and there was a livery on the fuselage that looked like an airline.
"Wow, propeller, what age is this? Is it safe? Tang Shuxing felt scared when he looked at the plane, and in the process of being dragged, the fuselage of the plane was dragged by the steel cable to make a "buzzing" sound, as if it was about to fall apart.
Gu Huaiyi looked at the plane that was dragged to the "runway" and said: "This is the An-24 small passenger plane of the former Soviet Union. โ
"To be precise, the An-24RV, with an auxiliary power unit, removed all the seats that were not needed in the passenger plane, freed up space and added auxiliary fuel tanks, otherwise it would not have been able to fly to New Guinea at all." Tian Longting folded his hands and bowed towards the plane.
Tang Shuxing glanced at Gu Huaiyi and asked, "What is he doing?" โ
"Pray to God and worship Buddha." Gu Huaiyi said and walked towards the plane that had been towed out, while Tian Longting was still worshipping there. Muttering to himself, Tang Shuxing only vaguely heard him saying something like "safe all the way".
After the four of them got on the plane, they saw that everything that should have been dismantled inside had been dismantled. It almost turned into a cargo plane, and the plane also carried two large wooden boxes on it. Just when Tang Shuxing was about to ask. Tian Longting, who walked past and walked directly to the cockpit, preemptively said, "It's best not to ask what's inside." โ
It's okay if he doesn't say it, as soon as he says Tang Shuxing, he guesses that it is probably drugs, since Tian Longting didn't say it, he has to pretend not to know, after all, he has to rely on Zheng Guoyuan now.
"Not drugs!" Tian Longting poked his head out of the cockpit, "The young master hates drugs, I put drugs here." Isn't it looking for death? It's just some Southeast Asian specialties, so you have to give a gift if you find someone to help. โ
Gu Huaiyi didn't speak, just leaned on one of the four remaining chairs and closed his eyes and fell asleep, not caring about anything else.
"I am Tian Longting, the captain of this flight. Before I do that, I have one thing to announce to you. Tian Longting suddenly put on a hat that he didn't know where to get it, grabbed his sunglasses and pointed to the two off-road vehicles that could be seen in front of the cabin and said, "Although the theoretical take-off distance of this plane is 600 meters, our runway in front of us has also reached this distance." But because the ground is not too good to reach the theoretical take-off speed, it can only be dragged by two off-road vehicles, so there is a certain danger. โ
What the!? Dirt bike tow! Isn't this looking for death? Tang Shuxing's sweat slid down, and he looked at Tian Longting and raised his hand and asked, "Captain." I'm not going to sit anymore, can I change my ticket? โ
"Ready to take off!" Tian Longting sat back in his seat as if he hadn't heard it, and after starting the engine again, he turned his head to look at Tang Shu and said, "I need a co-pilot, just you." โ
"Huh!?" Tang Shuxing pointed at himself, "Big brother, I used to fly a plane when I was playing a game!" โ
"I don't need you to drive, come!" Tian Longting beckoned Tang Shuxing into the cockpit.
Tang Shuxing put down the dragon blade extremely reluctantly, got into the cabin, and then sat on the seat next to him, looking at the instruments and various buttons around and was dazed, and the most terrifying thing was that there were many places filled with dust.
Tian Longting started the engine, grabbed the lever, and then pressed it around, and was dazzled by the Tang Shuxing.
"This plane can climb high and land anything, and the most troublesome thing is that there is a problem with the radius of curvature." Tian Longting said, "And on this kind of runway, if there is a problem with reaching V1 speed, it is impossible for me to interrupt the flight, and I must take off if I exceed it." โ
Tian Longting was talking to himself, as if Tang Shuxing was born to understand this.
"What is the radius of curvature? What is v1 again!? Tang Shuxing's voice was hoarse, and his eyes were fixed on the front.
"It's at maximum power." Tian Longting didn't answer at all, and shouted to the off-road vehicle driver with a walkie-talkie, "Go!" โ
Tang Shuxing subconsciously clung to the back of the chair, covered in sweat, watching the off-road vehicle begin to make a roar that could be heard in the cabin, and then rushed towards the direction of the cliff, and the plane also started at the same time.
Tian Longting threw the walkie-talkie to Tang Shuxing: "I have to hold on to the joystick, and wait for you to give orders to the off-road vehicle according to my instructions." โ
Tang Shuxing nodded vigorously and stared ahead, now the speed of the plane had risen, and the off-road vehicle had completely run. He could clearly see with the naked eye that the steel cable behind the off-road vehicle was gradually stretching, and after stretching to the limit, the fuselage vibrated and made a strange "buzzing" sound, as if it had been torn somewhere, and then the plane's engine roared, as if something had been rolled in.
Tian Longting stared at the speedometer and engine power meter, then raised his eyes to look at the cliff that was getting closer and closer in front of him, his mouth opened slightly, he took a deep breath, and suddenly said, "Let them let go of the rope!" Fast! โ
"Release the rope!" Tang Shuxing pressed the walkie-talkie and shouted, but he was afraid that the other party would not hear it, so he shouted several times, and then raised his eyes to see that the control hook lock behind the off-road vehicle was opened, and the two off-road vehicles also took advantage of the situation to drill into the jungle on both sides to make way for the plane.
Tian Longting grabbed the joystick and pulled it back, gritted his teeth and said, "Oh no, I can't reach the speed of lifting the front wheel!" โ
"! Don't scare me! Tang Shuxing was about to shrink into a ball, and his eyes widened as he watched the plane get closer and closer to the cliff, and he was about to rush down.
The two off-road vehicles that rushed into the jungle stopped, and the people on the vehicles jumped down one after another, rushed to the runway, and just rushed over, they saw the An-24 rushing directly towards the cliff, and fell headlong, and the soldiers let out a frightened cry, while shouting, while rushing towards the position of the cliff.
Before they could reach the edge of the cliff, they saw the nose of the An-24 lift and climb up into the air, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from their foreheads.
In the cockpit, Tang Shuxing, who was about to put his body on the seat, felt that his whole body was about to explode, and at the moment when the nose of the plane fell downward, the feeling of falling had a feeling of pressing his internal organs out of his mouth, and then Tian Longting pulled up the plane again, and the momentary weightlessness brought about the sudden secretion of adrenal glands, as if filling his whole body.
"Alright!" Tang Shuxing shouted.
"This is the first stage of the climb! Don't move! It's going to be bumpy at any moment, this broken plane! Damn it! Tian Longting grabbed the joystick and looked nervously ahead, his eyes scanning around the dashboard.
Broken plane!? Tang Shuxing looked at Tian Longting fiercely, thinking to himself if this thing could not be assembled by itself with parts, right?
Just when the plane slowly stabilized and climbed to a normal altitude, Ji Kefeng, who was actually sitting in the back and was actually extremely nervous, opened his eyes suddenly, and then turned his head to look at the two boxes contained in the back of the plane.
"What? Questions? Gu Huaiyi asked on the side.
Ji Kefeng shook his head slightly: "No, I'm just worried that the box is not tied strongly, in case there are bumps and injuries to people." โ
"Really?" Gu Huaiyi sneered, "I thought there was some monster in the box, which made you suddenly startled." โ
"I feel wrong." Ji Kefeng closed his eyes again, he didn't want to talk to Gu Huaiyi more, he wouldn't speak unless necessary.
After Ji Kefeng closed his eyes, Gu Huaiyi slowly opened his eyes, looked back at the location of the box, pondered for a while, and then raised his eyes to look inside the cockpit, and saw Tang Shuxing, who had unfastened his seat belt, standing up and holding up the cockpit door panting, his face turned pale with fright.
"Are you afraid of flying?" Gu Huaiyi smiled, "Why didn't you think it before?" โ
Tang Shuxing glanced back at Tian Longting and said, "You sit in front and try it-" As soon as he said this, the plane encountered a turbulent current, and the fuselage began to jolt, Tang Shuxing almost crashed to the side, and then grabbed the back of the chair and sat back, buckling the seat belt to death.
After the bump was over, Gu Huaiyi opened his mouth and asked, "Master Tian, what exactly is in the box?" โ
After Gu Huaiyi asked, Ji Kefeng's eyelids slowly raised, staring at Tian Longting in the cockpit.